{"product_id":"patricia-highsmiths-diaries-and-notebooks-the-new-york-years-1941-1950-paperback","title":"Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Highsmith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnna Von Planta\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoan Schenkar\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/em\u003e, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/em\u003e became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental \u003cem\u003eDiaries and Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e reveals \"Pat\" at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas native's adventurous twenties, ?\u003cem\u003eThe New York Years\u003c\/em\u003e intertwines scenes from her dizzying social life--rife with sleepless nights barhopping in the queer underground Greenwich Village scene, always juggling too many lovers--with an intimate self-portrait of a young artist who by day dispassionately wrote comics for a paycheck. Amid all the hangovers and the breakups, she read voraciously and honed her craft with verve. Laid bare in this perennial reader's edition are the bold, hilarious, romantic, tragic, and maddeningly contradictory observations of one of \"our greatest modernist writers\" (Gore Vidal).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Highsmith's lacerating diaries and notebooks . . . will be seen as one of the great twentieth-century artistic self-portraits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Frances Wilson, ? \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Provides stunning access to the mind of a notoriously secretive author.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e?Keziah Weir, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Pat Highsmith's astonishing candor in the witness stand of her personal notebooks . . . [is] like nothing else in confessional literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Joan Schenkar, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Talented Miss Highsmith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 672\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170058375303,"sku":"9781324092940","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4c0ca1fc77e35b57104768dadcd7e51c.webp?v=1733345483","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/patricia-highsmiths-diaries-and-notebooks-the-new-york-years-1941-1950-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}